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Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life

10 best books like Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life (Richard J. Leider): The Book Charmer, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Beard with Me, The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter, My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir, The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family, The Lemon Sisters, Tuesday Morning Coaching ... Eight Simple Truths to Boost Your Career and Your Life

The Book Charmer
AuthorKaren Hawkins
ISBN1982105542
The New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular MacLean Curse series crafts a charming and evocative story about a picturesque Southern town, two fiercely independent women, and a magical friendship that will change their lives forever.

The residents of Dove Pond, North Carolina,...
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
AuthorAtul Gawande
ISBN0805082115
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors...
Beard with Me
AuthorPenny Reid
‘Beard With Me’ is the origin story of Billy Winston and Scarlet St. Claire (aka Claire McClure) and is just the beginning of their epic love story.

No one is better at surviving than Scarlet St. Claire and making the best out of circumstances beyond her control is Scarlet’s specialty....
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
AuthorChip Heath
ISBN1501147765
The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.

While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive...
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
AuthorHaben Girma
ISBN1478992816
The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.

Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off...
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
AuthorMargareta Magnusson
ISBN1501173243
A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.

In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning “death” and städning meaning “cleaning.” This surprising and invigorating...
My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir
AuthorTia Torres
From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life. Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster life...
The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family
AuthorMike Leonard
ISBN0345481488
Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic...
The Lemon Sisters
AuthorJill Shalvis
ISBN0062741942
The New York Times bestselling author of Rainy Day Friends and Lost and Found Sisters returns to Wildstone, California...

Brooke Lemon has always led the life she wanted, wild adventures—and mistakes—included, something her perfect sister, Mindy, never understood. So when Mindy...
Tuesday Morning Coaching ... Eight Simple Truths to Boost Your Career and Your Life
AuthorDavid Cottrell
ISBN0981924255
At some point in the last few decades it became popular to write business advice and professional self-help books in a narrative format. Presumably this was done to make the concepts being described more accessible and engaging for the lay reader. But such an approach only works if the author has any...
Icons and Idiots: Straight Talk on Leadership
AuthorBob Lutz
ISBN1591846048
“Most successful leaders are mentally and emotionally askew. There’s a good side, which gets the job done. There’s often also a downside that makes them hard to understand or difficult to work for. It’s precisely that they are impatient, stubborn, opinionated, unsatisfied, and domineering...
Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Hire, Keep and Nurture Creative Talent
AuthorNolan Bushnell
ISBN0988879514
Nolan Bushnell founded the groundbreaking gaming company Atari and two dozen other companies. He also launched Steve Jobs' career, along with those of many other brilliant creatives over the course of his five decades in business. In his eagerly awaited first book, Bushnell explains how to find,...
Great Work: How to Make a Difference People Love
AuthorDavid Sturt
ISBN0071818359
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Great work lives inside all of us.

The question is: Do we make the contributions we're capable of? Is our best work getting out there? Breaking through? Creating a difference the world loves?

We've long been told our ability to succeed depends on our IQ,...
Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles for Connecting with Your Customers, Your Products and Your People
AuthorJoseph A. Michelli
ISBN0071801251
Lead Your Business the Starbucks Way Foreword by Herve Humler, President and COO, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C.

One of the best-recognized and admired brands in the world, Starbucks singlehandedly transformed the ordinary delivery of coffee into a cultural phenomenon--a result...
Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations
AuthorDavid McAdams
ISBN0393239675
A radically new, and easily learned, way to outstrategize your rivals.

"The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win." So wrote Zhuge Liang, the great Chinese military strategist. He was referring to battlefield tactics, but the same can be said about any strategic situation....
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
AuthorPeter H. Diamandis
ISBN1476709564
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From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Abundance comes their much anticipated follow-up: Bold—a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary...
Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry
AuthorDavid C. Robertson
Brick by Brick takes you inside the LEGO you've never seen. By following the teams that are inventing some of the world's best-loved toys, it spotlights the company's disciplined approach to harnessing creativity and recounts one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent memory....
Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook's Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg
AuthorEkaterina Walter
The simple five-part formula the upstart Facebook CEO used to change the world—and how any business leader can apply it to his or her own company

Facebook changed the way hundreds of millions communicate, engage, and consume information and products—and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is behind...
Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions
AuthorPhilip M. Rosenzweig
Left Brain, Right Stuff takes up where other books about decision making leave off. For many routine choices, from shopping to investing, we can make good decisions simply by avoiding common errors, such as searching only for confirming information or avoiding the hindsight bias. But as Phil Rosenzweig...
The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace
AuthorShaunti Feldhahn
ISBN1601421206
Millions of women gained eye-opening insights about the inner lives of men through Shaunti Feldhahn’s best-selling book For Women Only. Now with this faith-based edition of The Male Factor, Feldhahn brings her innovative research approach to the workplace to help women understand their male...
Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions, and Thrive in the 21s t Century
AuthorMarc Schoen
ISBN1594630976
Thanks to technology, we live in a world that’s much more comfortable than ever before. But here’s the paradox:  our tolerance for discomfort is at an all-time low. And as we wrestle with a sinking “discomfort threshold,” we increasingly find ourselves at the mercy of our primitive instincts...
Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
AuthorLarry Bossidy
ISBN1400050847
Confronting Reality will change the way you think about and run your business. It is the first book that shows how to connect the big picture of the new era of business with the nitty-gritty of what to do about it. Through a completely new way to understand and use the business model as the primary tool for...
The Garden of Small Beginnings
AuthorAbbi Waxman
ISBN0399583580
Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss.

Give grief a chance ...

Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years - ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental...
How to Change Minds: The Art of Influence without Manipulation
AuthorRob Jolles
ISBN1609948297
Persuade, Don’t Push!

Surely you know plenty of people who need to make a change, but despite your most well-intentioned efforts, they resist because people fundamentally fear change. As a salesman, father, friend, and consultant, Rob Jolles knows this scenario all too well. Drawing...
Patternmaking for Fashion Design
AuthorHelen Joseph-Armstrong
ISBN0131112112
Renowned for its comprehensive coverage, exceptional illustrations, and clear instructions, this hallmark book offers detailed yet easy-to-understand explanations of the essence of patternmaking. Hinging on a recurring theme that all designs are based on one or more of the three major patternmaking...
This is How I Save My Life: A True Story of Finding Everything When You are Willing to Try Anything
AuthorAmy B. Scher
ISBN1501164953
"Amy Scher is a brave warrior and a wonderful writer." - ELIZABETH GILBERT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic

The true story of a fiery young woman's heartwarming and hilarious journey that takes her from near-death in California to a trip around the world...
Antarctica on a Plate
AuthorAlexa Thomson
ISBN1840244712
She came. She saw. She burnt the toast. A young woman with a stellar city career but an increasing dissatisfaction with life, Alexa applies for the position of cook with a private company which organises Antarctic operations. Armed with an old cookbook, she attempts to create three-course meals with...
Walking the Nile
AuthorLevison Wood
ISBN1471135667
A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller
His journey is 4,250 miles long.
He is walking every step of the way, camping in the wild, foraging for food, fending for himself against multiple dangers.
He is passing through rainforest, savannah, swamp, desert and lush delta oasis.
He...
You Already Know How to Be Great: A Simple Way to Remove Interference and Unlock Your Greatest Potential
AuthorAlan Fine
ISBN1591843553
A bold new approach to performance by one of the top coaches in the country.

In trying to improve-on the playing field, in the office, or even at home-most people seek out new information to get to the next level. They read a book, attend a class, or hire an expert to give them an edge.

But...
Love in the Afternoon
AuthorKaren Hawkins
ISBN1982105585
A woman with a legendary green thumb, a man living in an emotional desert, and a small boy unable to connect with others. Can the three of them, with a little help from the charmed town of Dove Pond (and a pesky ghost), turn a nightmare into a fairytale and forge their own happily ever after?

Young...
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